Atlantic City seeks to hone in on Asbury Park’s mojo

As a gambling mecca in search of a niche Atlantic City has failed.  Miserably.

But before they throw in the towel they’re determined to rebrand the city one more time.

Nucky Thompson, meet Joel Ballesteros.

From gay bingo nights at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort to “Out in Atlantic City” events at the Caesars Entertainment Corp. properties, Atlantic City is building a reputation as a gay-friendly tourist town.

The new owner of Resorts Casino Hotel has taken it to another level by hiring the gaming industry’s first marketing director devoted strictly to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, or LGBT for short.

Resorts’ appointment of Joel Ballesteros as director of alternative lifestyle marketing could be followed by something that would amp up the gay-party scene even more — the first gay nightclub at an Atlantic City casino

Up ’til now if you wanted to get your gay on at the Jersey shore then Asbury Park was the place to go.  Bruce Springsteen’s former stomping grounds seemed poised for a genuine revival after years of missed opportunities and broken dreams.  Asbury Park was the hippest gay-friendly town this side of Fire Island.  Cool bars, hot restaurants, and nut huts as far as the eye could see.  But then the recession hit and even the gay guys ran out of free-flowing disposable income. 

Now Atlantic City hopes to succeed where Asbury Park came up short.

I wish them luck.  If nothing else, the swimsuit competition at next year’s Miss America pageant should be very interesting indeed.

The Obama Doctrine: See no jihad, Hear no jihad, Speak no jihad

First it was his lackadaisical resonse to the Fort Hood massacre.

Now again Barry refuses to connect the dots.  In Germany a Muslim nutjob screaming “Allahu Akbar” gunned down two U.S. airmen.  But their Commander in Chief won’t use the T word.

To a Community Organizer it isn’t really terrorism until someone goes against the public employee unions.

Did it come with a pizza too?

Various NJ Democrats are furious with Gov. Chris Christie for suspending home delivery of “medical” marijuana.

Home delivery?  Good grief, did it come with a pizza too?  Or just a bag of Doritos?

Dr. StrangeGore: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Global Warming and Love the Bomb

Via The Classic Liberal: Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming

Even a regional nuclear war could spark “unprecedented” global cooling and reduce rainfall for years, according to U.S. government computer models.

To see what climate effects a regional nuclear conflict might have, scientists from NASA and other institutions modeled a war involving a hundred Hiroshima-level bombs, each packing the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT—just 0.03 percent of the world’s current nuclear arsenal.

The researchers predicted the resulting fires would kick up roughly five million metric tons of black carbon into the upper part of the troposphere, the lowest layer of the Earth’s atmosphere.

In NASA climate models, this carbon then absorbed solar heat and, like a hot-air balloon, quickly lofted even higher, where the soot would take much longer to clear from the sky.

In the movie, NASA Warmal Colding alarmist James Hansen stars as General Jack D. Ripper.